According to general manager Joel Pascual of Cartama Europe, the avocado business is rather calm now, with record arrivals from Peru and Kenya hitting Europe, supported by good volumes from Colombia. “With it being the holiday season, demand is slow, and we expect this to continue for the next 2-3 weeks before starting to recover in September.”
Joel Pascual
“We typically see a gap in volume vs demand and consequently an increase in prices during September and October, as the summer origins finish, and the winter origins only start to gather pace”, says Joel Pascual. “As far as we see we are looking in Cartama at another year of continued 52 weeks exports to Europe.”
Facilities in production units with facilities for the employees surrounded by the farms
“From November onwards there is still some information to be confirmed but it’s expected that production from winter origins will increase vs 2022. Israel and Morocco should see a notable increase whereas there is still some uncertainty from Chile and Spain – the former suffering a frost earlier this year which affected some growing areas and the latter experiencing high temperatures during the flowering period.”
One of the farms in Antioquia (Colombia)
“At Cartama we will not stop our production as we transition from the Traviesa crop to the main crop – We are very happy with our Traviesa quality this year which has been consistently good and we expect a very good winter season where our volumes are also expected to increase vs 2022, the final % still to be precisely determined.”
Cartama Europe is an exhibitor on the Fruit Attraction in Madrid: 10B18A.
For more information:
Joel Pascual
Cartama Europe
Harnaschdreef 10
2635BT Den Hoorn
Tel: +44 7799 626 655
[email protected]
www.cartamaeurope.com